Jonathan Kay calls out the “non-existent ‘epidemic’ of antisemitism in Canada”

Jonathan Kay is Quillette’s Canadian
editor. He was the editor-in-chief of The Walrus (2014–2017) and
was previously comment pages editor, columnist, and blogger for the
Toronto-based Canadian daily newspaper National Post.

It’s time to call out the non-existent “epidemic” of anti-semitism in Canada. As a Jew, I’ve never felt safer. Yet I constantly see the media hyping the few real incidents that take place, cheered on by anti-hate groups in fundraising mode & by SJWs who see Nazis under their beds

When I started as a journalist in the 1990s, I got antisemitic hate mail/email all the time. This trailed off over the last 20 years, and is now virtually nil. And yet over this same period, Bnai Brith etc have insisted that jew-hatred is skyrocketing, which is complete bullshit

And no, this wasn’t just SJW types. It was also Israel supporters who blurred the distinction between criticism of Israel and anti-semitism. Both sides of the ideological aisle have been pushing this moral panic.